Comments on: Financial Times 14,032 by Falcon

By: onliner

onliner — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 03:52:10 +0000

At last a right event at the right place.

By: Pete Maclean

Pete Maclean — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 01:45:13 +0000

Well, that was jolly silly of me, wasn’t it! I mean incorrectly parsing RELIEF. I guess I got fixated on Eli because it seemed plausible that there could be some well known story with that name. Thank you, Tom.

Bob, thank you for the tip about BOSS-EYED. I think you must be right. So, I actually made the same mistake twice. I was not familiar with that meaning of ‘ready’ and figure that must explain the clue.

By: Bob Cumbow

Bob Cumbow — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 00:41:50 +0000

I agree with you about CHAMELEON, and with Tom about RELIEF. I may be able to offer some help on a couple of others:

28a. If instead of looking at it as BOSS – EY – ED you look at it as BOSS – E(YE)D, you have “YE” for that old article, being “clutched” by ED for editor.

3d. A puzzler friend of mine says that “ready” is not just an adjective meaning “prepared” but also a noun referring to the wherewithal to to something; “having the readies” is apparently an expression heard in Britain, and it seems that this meaning of “ready” is what Falcon was getting at.

And thanks for PANDA CAR! I’d never heard that expression, and just now looked it up. I had the right idea, but I had put down PADDY CAR–working from the American term “paddy wagon” for a police vehicle–and thought no more about it. Now I’ve learned a new expression!

By: Tom Johnson

Tom Johnson — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 23:26:01 +0000

27 Across is explained as follows: REF, round LIE = story; RE-lie-F
It all depends on which E you choose to create REF!

I too was unsure about the interpretation of the clue to CHAMELEON.